Chakraborty, Kasturi;
Anees, Palapuravan;
Surana, Sunaina;
Martin, Simona;
Aburas, Jihad;
Moutel, Sandrine;
Perez, Franck;
... Krishnan, Yamuna; + view all
(2021)
Tissue-specific targeting of DNA nanodevices in a multicellular living organism.
eLife
, 10
, Article e67830. 10.7554/eLife.67830.
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Abstract
Nucleic acid nanodevices present great potential as agents for logic-based therapeutic intervention as well as in basic biology. Often, however, the disease targets that need corrective action are localized in specific organs and thus realizing the full potential of DNA nanodevices also requires ways to target them to specific cell-types in vivo. Here we show that by exploiting either endogenous or synthetic receptor-ligand interactions and by leveraging the biological barriers presented by the organism, we can target extraneously introduced DNA nanodevices to specific cell types in C. elegans, with sub-cellular precision. The amenability of DNA nanostructures to tissue-specific targeting in vivo significantly expands their utility in biomedical applications and discovery biology.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | Tissue-specific targeting of DNA nanodevices in a multicellular living organism |
| Location: | England |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.7554/eLife.67830 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.67830 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Copyright Chakraborty et al. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use and redistribution provided that the original author and source are credited. |
| Keywords: | Science & Technology, Life Sciences & Biomedicine, Biology, Life Sciences & Biomedicine - Other Topics, FREE CLICK CHEMISTRY, DOUBLE-STRANDED-RNA, CAENORHABDITIS-ELEGANS, C-ELEGANS, ANTIBODY FRAGMENTS, GENE-EXPRESSION, PH CHANGES, PROTEIN, ACID, TRANSPORT |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology > Department of Neuromuscular Diseases |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10164955 |
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